Lecture Notes by Mustafa Jarrar at Birzeit University, Palestine. See the course webpage at: http://jarrar-courses.blogspot.com/2014/01/web-data-management.html and http://www.jarrar.info you may also watch this lecture at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH9mksypcNw The lecture covers Data Integration and Fusion

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Dr. Mustafa Jarrar
University of Birzeit
mjarrar@birzeit.edu
www.jarrar.info
Lecture Notes on Data Integration and Fusion Using RDF
University of Birzeit, Palestine
2013
Data Integration and Fusion
using RDF

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Watch this lecture and download the slides from
http://jarrar-courses.blogspot.com/2014/01/web-data-management.html
Thanks to Anton Deik for helping me preparing this lecture

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Outline
Example from the Government Domain
- Ministry of Justice: To RDF
- Chamber of Commerce: To RDF
- Ministry of Economy: To RDF
- Integration of RDF Data
- Linking resources
- Data Integration and Fusion
- Practical Session
Keywords: Domain, databases, RDF, Data integration , linking, queries , dataset, entities , URI, Global Identifier, RDF
graphs , Fusion, Practical Session ,relational data, model

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Example from the Government Domain
• Consider this simplified example from the Government domain.
Consider three governmental agencies that record information about
companies.
• In this example, we will integrate the three databases by transforming
each one into RDF and then concatenating the resultant RDF tables
into one table. After that, we investigate the concatenated data and link
the different resources.
• Data integration is simply achieved through concatenation of RDF
graphs and linking different resources. It is also achieved when building
and executing the queries over the concatenated dataset.
Companies DB in
Ministry of Justice
Companies DB in
Ministry of Economy
Companies DB in
Chamber of Commerce

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Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Justice records some information about companies
in addition to the advocates that represent the companies.
Company
Advocate

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Ministry of Justice: To RDF
Company
Advocate
To RDF …

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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce records information about companies
in addition to information about companies’ owners.
Company
Owner
Company_Owner

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Chamber of Commerce: To RDF
To RDF …

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Ministry of Economy
Ministry of Economy records information about
companies, their owners, and their advocates.
Company
Owner
Lawyer

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Ministry of Economy: To RDF
To RDF …

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Integration of RDF Data
As simple as …
S P O S P O S P O

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In our example

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Linking resources
How are same entities described in different datasets linked?
By linking the Global Identifier, that is, the URI**!
Let’s have a look:
:YH852 owl:sameAs :8327848
:YH852 owl:sameAs :4354JU
**
Note that in our example we used colons to distinguish URIs. For example :JK452, :H782YU,
:Country, and :Name are all URIs.
For example: “:H782YU” might actually be something like: http://www.palgov.ps//H782YU
:H782YU owl:sameAs :L85652r
- Links the company called “Palestine
Antiques” in the three databases.
- This is called entity resolution/
disambiguation.
- Links the lawyer called “Tony Deik” recorded
in the ministry of Justice and the ministry of
national economy.
- This is called entity resolution/
disambiguation.

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Data Integration and Fusion
Concatenating RDF graphs
and linking entities in different
datasets forms an integrated
view where applications see all
datasets as one integrated
database.
Source: Christian Bizer

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Practical Session

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Practical Session
Description:
From previous practical sessions: “The central management of students’ profiles by
the ministry of education is becoming an urgent need in the last years. Many students in
Palestine move from one university to another, and they need to transfer their academic
records. Also, the ministry of higher education needs to certify the diplomas and mark
sheets of students. Moreover, there is a need to centrally manage/monitor students financial
aids. Therefore, the ministry of higher education has decided to build a national student
registry, such that, each semester every university has to send the academic record of every
student to the ministry of education. The ministry will then update and integrate the
academic records according to the data combined from all universities into the national
student registry.”
The ministry wants to use RDF to integrate this data. Thus, each
university must map its relational data (or data in any other model) into
RDF, and at the ministry this data is integrated and fused. Map the
universities’ relational data into RDF and integrate and fuse it.

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Practical Session
• Each two students form a group. Each group must be composed of students from
different universities (in their first level degrees).
• Students are expected to use three different mark sheets from different universities to
construct 3 different hypothetical relational data schemes of students records.
• Students must populate the three databases (pertaining to the 3 different data
schemes) with sample data.
• Students must integrate and fuse all data using RDF.
• Students are highly recommended to use the ontologies developed in previous practical
sessions when mapping and integrating RDF data.
• Students must write at least three SPARQL queries on the integrated RDF data that
involves data from all 3 sources
• Students must work this practical session using Oracle Semantic Technologies.
• After finalizing their work, each group will be asked to present their work to all students,
so to collect comments and feedback.
• The final delivery include: (i) Snapshots of the three hypothetical databases and
schemes taken from Oracle DB. (ii) The RDF mapping of each database (SPO tables).
(iii) The integrated final RDF showing how entities were disambiguated. (iv) The
executed SPARQL queries and their results. Note that this final delivery should have the
form of a report where discussion of the various steps are expected to be clear.